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… it solitary. Well, this is not an example for you to copy, is it? But it gives an idea of the principle "Take the bull by the horns." A practice easier to imitate was this following. In most great cities, always in Eastern cities, are black slums. Here one may find blind alleys, dark doorways open to unlighted houses. One may explore such places, looking for adventure-and it was rather a point of honour to accept the challenge in whatever form it took. Again, one may walk with deliberate carelessness into the traffic; this practice does not in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 170
… :. A: .. ) There are also various classics of the subject, helpful to assimilate the romantic and enthusiastic atmosphere proper to the practice of the Art; one may instance Catullus, luvenal, (especially the Sixth Satire) Martial, Petronius Arbiter, Apuleius, Boccaccio, Masucci, Francois Rabelais, de Balzac (Contes Drolatiques), de Sade (Justine, Juliette, et al.) Andre de Nerciat, Alfred de Musset et Georges Sand (Gamiani: ou Deux nuits d'exces) Sacher Masoch (Venus in Furs), with English and American too numerous to list, but notably the po…
1954 · PDF PAGE 115
82 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Pantheism of the Sufis which eliminates the conception of propitiation; and, in practice, the Sufis are too closely allied to the Vedantists to retain hold of reality. That will be all for the present. Love is the law. love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 415
…re are in fact many types of fear which may be uprooted by some form of psycho-analysis. Generally speaking, it is up to you to invent a practice to meet each specific case. One moment, though, about the fear of death. The radical cure is the gaining of the magical memory. (See also AL, I: 58.) The more previous incarnations one can remember, the less important appears the moment when the curve of life dips below the horizon. (One very curious point: when one looks back at the moment of one of one's deaths, one exclaims: "By love! that was a na…
1954 · PDF PAGE 305
… as I could remember on waking, instantly. The result of doing this is rather surprising. To begin with, I discovered, especially as the practice progressed, that I was having many more dreams than I had previously supposed . This might have come about in either of two ways. ( I) The practice might have actually increased my tendency to dream, and (2) the habit of observation may have brought dreams to the surface which would otherwise have gone unremarked. In either case the figures were quite definite. I found almost at once, that is to say a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 485
…ebunking" the Venus of Milo. The maximum success possible in such an operation would be to become a "Black-Brother"; but what happens in practice, so far as my own experience goes, is complete dispersion of the mental faculties amounting to suicide; I could quote no less than four cases in which actual physical self-murder was the direct result.
1954 · PDF PAGE 196
22 How to Learn the Practice of Astrology Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Up, Guards, and at 'em!" First, you must know your correspondences by heart backwards and upside down (air connu) . They are practically all in The Book of Thoth; but "if anyone anything lacks," look for it in 777. Then, get a book on Astrology, the older the better. Raphael's Shilling Handbook is probably enough for the present purpose. Get well into your head what the menu says about the natures of the planets, the influence of the aspects,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 182
…r Lady the Moon. I propose to deal with the general object of the combined rituals, not with the special virtues of each separately. The practice of Liber III vel Jugorum 1 is the complement of these grouped customs. By sharp physical self-chastisement when you think, say, or do whatever it is that you have set yourself to avoid doing, you set a sentry at the gate of your mind ready to challenge all comers, and so you acquire the habit of being on the alert. Keep this in mind, and you will have no difficulty in following the argument of this le…
1954 · PDF PAGE 437
… that there is no possible means of deciding which of two conflicting statements to accept. In faith of this kind there are of course in practice delicately shaded degrees; these depend mostly upon the authority of the speaker and your relations with, and opinion of, him. In practice, moreover, faith is usually tinged-should I say clouded?-by questions of probability. I see no need to weary you with examples of varying degrees; it is enough to dismiss the subject with the remark that faith is not true faith if any considerations of any kind sul…
1954 · PDF PAGE 183
…. Atmospherics-e.g. voices apparently from some alien source. 5. Aberrations of the control itself; and the result itself. (Remember the practice of some Hindu schools : "Not that, not that!" to whatever it is that presents itself as Tat Sat-reality, truth.) Need I remind you how urgent the wish to escape will assuredly become, how fantastic are the mind's devices and excuses, amounting often to deliberate revolt? In Kandy I broke away in a fury, and dashed down to Colombo with the intention of painting the very air as red as the betel-spittle …
1954 · PDF PAGE 55
…roperly across; a faculty which one acquires (as a rule) quite suddenly and unexpectedly. Rather like mastering some shots at billiards. Practice has taught me how to communicate this to students; only in rare cases does one fail. (It's incredible: one man simply could not be persuaded that intense physical exertion was the wrong way to do it. There he sat, with the veins on his forehead almost on the point of bursting, and the arms of my favourite chair visibly trembling beneath his powerful grip!) In your case, I notice that you have got this…
1954 · PDF PAGE 74
…e Buddhist idea of Nibbana. We who accept the Law of Thelema, even should we concur in this doctrine theoretically, cannot admit that in practice the plan would work out; our aim is that our Nothing, ideally perfect as it is in itself, should enjoy itself through realizing itself in the fulfillment of all possibilities. All such phenomena or "point-events" are equally "illusion"; Nothing is always Nothing; but the projection of Nothing on this screen of the phenomenal does not only explain, but constitutes, the Universe. It is the only system w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 327
…se are the two great enemies of the Ethic of Thelema. They are the traditional obstacles to success in Yoga as well as in Magick. Now in practice, in everyday life, this unselfishness is always cropping up. Not only do you insult your brother King by your "noble self-sacrifice," but you are almost bound to interfere with his True Will. "Charity" always means that the lofty soul who bestows it is really, deep down, trying to enslave the recipient of his beastly bounty! In practice, I begin afresh, it is almost entirely a matter of the point of v…
1954 · PDF PAGE 198
THE PRACTICE OF ASTROLOGY 165 and trying to spot the rising sign of everybody you know. Look at them full-face, then profile; and note salient characteristics, pendulous lips, receding chins, bulbous noses, narrow foreheads, stuck-out ears, pimples, squints, warts, shape of face (three main types; thin, jutting, for cardinal signs; square, steadfast for kerubic; weak, nondescript, for the rest); then the stature , whether lithe, well-knit, sturdy, muscular, fat or what not; in short every bodily feature in turn; make up your mind what sign was …
1954 · PDF PAGE 259
… When in doubt, push just a little bit harder. You have no means of finding out what are exactly the right conditions for success in any practice; but all practices are alike in one respect; the desired result is in the nature of orgasm. I guess that's about what I think. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 241
… I want you to- abhor them abominate them despise them detest them eschew them hate them loathe them and da capo and to get on with your practice. Then when you get the results, you can try, albeit uselessly, to fit your own words to the facts, if you should wish to communicate , for any good reason, your experiences to other people . Then despairing of your impotence, how glad you will be that you have been trained not to let anyone fob you off with phrases. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 158
…om, the Incantations, the Mantras, and so on. All quite true, about Magick; but none of it applies to Yoga, for even with the Mantra the practice is to go faster and more quietly as one proceeds, until it becomes "Mental Muttering:" M is the letter that is pronounced with the lips 125
1954 · PDF PAGE 6
…tional Greetings 149 19 The Act of Truth 152 20 Talismans: The Lamen: The Pentacle ISS 21 My Theory of Astrology 159 22 How to Learn the Practice of Astrology 163 23 Improvising a Temple 167 24 Necromancy and Spiritism 178 25 Fascinations, Invisibility, Levitation, 184 Transmutations, Kinks in Time 26 Mental Processes-Two Only Are Possible 194
1954 · PDF PAGE 52
INTRODUCfION 19 you what the right tasks out of hundreds are by your own reactions to your own study and practice . "Osiris in Amennti" -see The Book of the Dead. I meant you might try to trace a parallelism between his journeyings and the Path of Initiation . Astral travel-development of the Astral Body is essential to research; and, above all, to the attainment of "the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel." You ought to demonstrate your performance of the Pentagram Ritual to me; you are probably making any number of mistakes.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 60
1 What Is Magick? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. What is Magick? Why should anyone study and practice it? Very natural; the obvious preliminary questions of any subject soever. We must certainly get all this crystal clear; fear not that I shall fail to set forth the whole business as concisely as possible yet as fully, as cogently yet as lucidly, as may prove within my power to do. At least I need not waste any time on telling you what Magick is not; or to go into the story of how the word came to be misapplied to …